Excerpt from the review:
Florian Medicus: "Nonetheless, the tower marks a caesura in Vladimir Tatlin's artistic work and was also to divide the era of the avant-garde into two periods, that is "before " and "after" the monument "
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REVIEW 21: Unbuildable Tatlin published by De Gruyter (Birkhäuser)
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Tatlin himself is an enigmatic figure yet his ambitions are clearly not, he spent years of his life perfecting his monument, diligently developing its spiral geometry, its material utopias and its epic rotating volumes
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Images: MONUMENT FOR THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL, more commonly known as TATLIN'S TOWER
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